Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

167. Posterity — N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring,

brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild. child, son, daughter; butcha†; bantling, scion; acrospire†, plumule†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit†, branch; off-shoot, off- set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir- presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation. straight descent, sonship†, line, lineage, filiation†, primogeniture. Adj. filial; diphyletic†. Phr. the child is father of the man [Wordsworth]; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.